The Odyssey Blog

Here you go. These directions are also published on Edline. Pay attention to important details. This assignment can be really FUN and EASY!


You already have an assignment sheet describing the blog assignment. These are more specific directions and eventually, there will be a rubric published on Edline as well.
Some steps to follow in the planning phases of your blog:



1. Come up with a creative title RELEVANT to The Odyssey
2. Come up with "nicknames" for yourself and your partner that are relevant, even funny and of course, appropriate. (ex. Aphrodite Jones and Hercules Smith)
3. Choose your blog layout, color schemes, etc.
4. Check out the features on how to add images to your blog (I will go over this in more detail as we continue with this project, this is something you can always ADD ON later) You can create surveys, text boxes, etc that will compiment your blog.
5. Once you have figured out the basics, plan out your first "post." This will be a recollection of all of the events from Book 9. This is the creative aspect of the unit. In addition to reading about the events and answering pretty simple questions for your take home tests, you will then also get to APPLY that knowledge.



A blog post might start out something like this:


"On our long journey today, we met many enemies. I was exhausted at day's end mostly by Odysseus' determination to get home. I really enjoyed the land of the Lotus eaters because the fruit they gave us made me feel happy and sleepy. I would have liked to lay in the grass all day until we could eat again, but Odysseus was in one of his bossy moods again and tied us to the ships to get us out of there. Some of the men didn't even get to taste the lotus, what a bummer. I am getting pretty sick of listening to Captain Odysseus all the time with his know it all attitude. He thought he was so smart when we arrived on the island of the Cyclopes....."



You get the idea. Be funny, be eccentric, be specific, be ACCURATE. Make sure you are not just making up hilarious fictional stories about things that we never read about. Take a bit of the text, mixed with a bit of ninth grade humor and make a wonderful harmony of ancient text and FUN!
Your book can be a great reference and inspiration, I am sure!



Get to work!
Miss Holmes :)



One thing to remember:
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A GOOLE USER NAME, please use that, if not, only ONE of you in the partnership has to create a name, not both.
Follow the link to start blogging.
http://www.blogger.com/tour_pub.g